South Water Tank At Loughborough Central Station

The South Water Tank at Loughborough Central Station is a railway water tank built in 1899 for the Great Central Railway. It is made of wrought and cast iron and features a standard design of a circular tank constructed from wrought iron plates atop a cast iron column. This tank is part of a group with Loughborough Central Station and is one of the few examples of these water tanks still in their original location, with two others also located in Loughborough.

Loughborough Central Station was opened by the Great Central Railway on what was originally the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway's London Extension, which was promoted in 1893. The railway became the Great Central Railway in 1897. The station opened on 15th March 1899 and closed on 5th May 1969, but it was reopened on 23rd March 1974 as the headquarters of the Great Central Railway, a private steam preservation line. The station remains almost completely unaltered since 1898 and continues to operate as a traditional steam railway.